About

Thanks for visiting my blog! My name is Micah Elliott, and I live in Portland,
Oregon, USA. I’m an entrepreneur and founder of Membean: an
online vocabulary training program used by schools in all 50 states and around
the globe. I spend much of my time there coding and managing infrastructure.
You should sign up for a free Membean
account; let me know how it goes!

My goal for this blog is to share technical knowledge and discoveries in
hopes that we can all continue learning. There is a focus on infrastructure,
Linux, programming, and teaching.

(You’ll find a some unfinished work on this “blog”. Some sections are a
dumping ground. When something comes to mind I’ll sketch it out here in public.
There is no real notion of “publish” — that becomes too formal and I end up
sitting on things. So I write, save, and push frequently. Sorry.)

Contact

You can email me: <mde@this-blog’s-domain>

Figure 1. That’s me with the wife and kids.

Colophon

This blog
comprises
a mix of my favorite tech (which I also like to write about). It’s hosted on
FreeBSD 10.1 by a
DigitalOcean droplet running
Nginx, and is
deployed via Ansible. The blog engine is
Cryogen, written in
Clojure, and it is nice to look at because it mostly came that way (including
Bootstrap). Posts are written in
Asciidoc with Emacs.
Changes are managed and shared on Github.
Read my recipe
on how to set it up if you want one, too.

Videos here are captured with
SSR (simple screen recorder)
or tty2gif. They are sometimes edited with
Kdenlive. Audio is recorded and edited with
Audacity. You may have noticed that everything I
use is Open Source. I spend nearly
all my working time on an Arch Linux system.

About Micah

Saluton! Welcome to my blog. I’m a developer, sysadmin, and
entrepreneur interested in education, functional programming
(Clojure, Racket, OCaml), Linux, FreeBSD,
Emacs, Ansible, and lots of other FOSS. Most of the content
herein takes the form of recipes and opinions. See the
README for more.